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Rahm Emanuel

Hey, let’s rebuild America

While infrastructure improvements have been neglected on a federal level for decades, Chicago is making one of the nation’s largest coordinated investments, putting 30,000 residents to work over the next three years improving our roads, rails and runways; repairing our aged water system; and increasing access to gigabit-speed broadband. We are paying for these critical improvements through a combination of reforms, efficiencies and direct user fees, as well as creating the nation’s first city-level public-private infrastructure bank. Democrats should champion these kinds of innovative financing tools at a national level.

If we want to build a future in which the middle class can succeed, we must continue the push for reform that the president began with Race to the Top, bringing responsibility and accountability to our teachers and principals.

Chicago has adopted its own Race to the Top for early childhood education, allowing public schools, Head Start, charters and parochial schools to compete for dollars by improving the quality of their pre-kindergarten programs. In addition, this year Chicago Public Schools put into effect a 30 percent increase in class time, which means that when today’s kindergartners graduate high school, they will have benefited from 2½ more years’ worth of education.

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If we want to build a future in which the middle class can succeed, we must continue the push for reform that the president began with Race to the Top, bringing responsibility and accountability to our teachers and principals.

People succeed all on their own when the government gets the hell out of their way. People don’t need you, people don’t want you. Leave us the hell alone.

Time to spread EVERYONE’S wealth around Chi-City’s dialled in rent seeking community.

The deficit? Not a priority.

The ludicrous shooting statistics in a city that bans handguns? Shut up.

What we need is to repay our ‘friends’ and of course ‘punish our enemies’.

Good luck Chicago. You used to do this in a very professional and polished way and it somehow worked. Now you’re broke, taxed out your rear end, there are maniacal gangs of hoodlums shooting up everything, and you have these idiot local politicians like Barky of the Kenya Ward of Rahm of the Tel Aviv Ward.

I don’t think those incomes are middle class in Chicago, it’s an expensive place to live.

Romney won the majority of voters who make more than $50K, the real middle class, that does not get food stamps. Please do not tell me you eat groceries bought with food stamps and call yourself Middle Class.

When asked about the supply shortage near dinnertime recently, Capt. Mark Kossarek with Ladder 23 on Detroit’s east side pulled a neatly folded, white paper towel — his napkin from lunch — out of his pocket.